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Exhibits
Continuing: EOfa Library, Tex-tiles
Through Two MUlenia, 2 to 5
p. m. and Italian Baroque Draw-ings,
2 to 5 p. m. Public Library,
Scenes from Columbia, water- colo- rs
by Lois Mikrut and 20th
Century Doll Collection loaned by
Lois Miller. v
Irasight
Plan to help
with traffic
abandoned
U. S. court order
halts experiment
in California
By Gladwin Hill
N. Y. Times Service
LOS ANGELES - One of the federal
government's principal experiments
for promoting bus travel and car
pooling to cut urban traffic and air
pollution was halted suddenly last
week. Whether it could be revived
seemed highly problematical.
Under the experiment, the high speed
left- han- d lane on a freeway was
restricted during rush hours to buses
and cars with three or more occupants.
Under way since March 15 on the 12 5- m- ile
( 20- kilomet- er) freeway from
Santa Monica to downtown Los
Angeles, the project had engendered
intense controversy. The vast majority
of motorists relegated to the three other
freeway lanes howled that the idea was
a disaster. State officials contended
that it was starting to produce the
desired results.
Their disputation was cut short last
Monday when the U S. District Court
here ordered the experiment suspended
on a technicality. Judge William
Matthew Byrne held that the State
Department of Transportation, in
instituting the project as part of a
federally mandated " transportation
control plan," had failed to comply with
federal and state laws requiring an
environmental impact assessment
The ruling brought cries of jubilation
from freeway commuters and a
celebratory cocktail party by a city
councilman who. had led toppeetttaaJo.
the project. The freeway immediately
reverted to its accustomed free- for- a- ll
pattern
Theoretically the ruling entails only a
hiatus of some months for preparation
of an impact assessment, which even if
adverse, would not legally stop the
Diamond Lane project, named for its
distinctive pavement markings.
However, the experiment was
ballooning into a political issue, with
state legislators at Sacramento
proposing to thwart it
And officials of the Environmental
Protection Agency in Washington
indicated informally that the
experiment had proved so
( See DESPITE, Page 11)
HMIATTTSI IiLlCOTIHCYHlCLTIL. " OCISTY 19334
COLUMBIA, VO. 65201 Council defeats ' premature9 eariiiiigs tax
ByLkMcNutty
Mluourisn staff writer
The earnings tax proposal was
defeated Monday night as City Council
members called it premature but ex-pressed
interest in passing the plan in
the future.
The proposed charter amendment,
which was defeated unanimously,
would have levied a one per cent tax on
all income earned by ' Columbia resi-dents
as well as all income earned by
non- reside- nts working in the dty.
" As long as the city administration
stays within its expenditure limit we
won't need this now," Third Ward
Councilman Phil Hanson said. Other
council members agreed that the ad-ministration's
efforts to limit spending
have eliminated the necessity for the
earnings tax now.
" We haven't reached the ( financial)
crisis we thought we'd have a year
ago," said Mayor Bob Pugh. " In my
thinking on this the patient is sick but
it's not ready for surgery this radical
yet"
Sixth Ward Councilman Clyde Wilson
said, " I will vote against this but I like
some aspects of it; I like getting those
who use the city to pay."
Proctor and other council members
praised the work of the Finance Study
Commission, which originally proposed
the earnings tax last year, and the work
of a special tax study group headed by
Finance Director Mike Scanlan which
prepared a report on how the tax would
be administered
" This last go ' round with the tech-nical
refinements ( the tax study group
report) will be valuable when the
( See COUNCIL, Page 11)
68th Year - No. 277 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, Aug. 17,1976 14 Pages - 15 Cents
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Tom Curtis, chairman of the Missouri
delegation, talks with a page at the Republican
National Convention. Curtis, a former Missouri
congressman, is a supporter of candidate Ronald
Reagan. ( Missourian photo by M. R. Bradford)
2 vh JBf IB HB wj jm 95 SI 1 h
By our wire services
KANSAS CITY Repubbcans staged
the ceremonial opening of their 31st
National Convention Monday, their
keynote speaker denouncing Demo-crats
for " rattling the dusty old
skeletons of Watergate " Meanwhile,
President Ford and Ronald Reagan
warred in the political trenches to settle
the closest presidential contest of the
times
An Illinois Ford delegate said
Monday a stranger offered her $ 2,500 to
back Ronald Reagan in a key con-vention
floor fight Reagan called this
and another bribery charge raised by
Ford supporters " a falsehood" that
" disgusted" him
CBS News said the FBI had confirm-ed
that a charge had been filed on the
bribery allegation, quoting special
agent Bill Williams as the source of that
report
Reagan probed for the advantage in
the convention by proposing to add a
platform plank that would in effect put
the convention on record as supporting
his posture on U S relations with the
Soviet Union
The former California governor thus
Invited a platform fight on the conven-tion
floor. Ford managers huddled at
their Crown Center Hotel headquarters
to decide on their counter- strateg- y
Ford himself received a procession of
delegates in his 18th floor presidential
suite
Sen James L Buckley of New York
stepped aside as a possible third entry,
saying he will run only for the Senate
and will support the ticket chosen by
the convention
The arithmetic of delegate votes told
the only story that counted, but what
those numbers were was in question
( see box below). Most news organi-zations
gave Ford more than 1,120 dele-gates,
only a few short of the 1,130
needed to nominate Only CBS- T- V said
he has the delegates needed
Before Wednesday night's climactic
roll call, the Ford and Reagan forces
likely will be measured by at least two
preliminary contests And those votes,
set for tonight, could affect the final
verdict
One loomed on Reagan's effort to
compel Ford to announce in advance
his choice of a vice presidential
nominee
Mane Goodlow, 45, a delegate from
Chicago committed to President Ford,
said a stranger claiming " 1 work for
Reagan" approached her in her
convention hotel and offered to pay all
her expenses " if you vote to force Presi-dent
Ford to name his running mate "
" There is absolutely nothing to it,"
Reagan told reporters who asked his
reaction to the vote- switchi- ng bribery
allegations made by Ford backers in
the Illinois delegation
Reagan raised the likelihood of
another preliminary contest by seeking
convention action " to strengthen the
party platform" on foreign policy The
( See FORD, Page 14)
County's one GOP delegate busy
ByBobHuckcr
Missourian staff writer
KANSAS CITY On the first day of
the Republican National Convention,
Betty Arndt has assumed the role of a
political insider a role she has played
in Boone County Republican politics
since 1956.
Mrs Arndt, a 55- year-- old Centralia
housewife and political organizer, is the
county's only delegate to the national
convention.
After arriving in Kansas City with
her husband Joe at about 1: 30 pjn.
Sunday, Mrs. Arndt attended a
Missouri delegate caucus at 4 p. m.,
then went to a cocktail reception at the
Imperial Palace Chinese restaurant
She was back at the Downtown Holiday
Inn at about 10 p. m. to begin
preparations for distributing
convention credentials and passes to
the guests of Missouri's 49 delegates
and 49 alternates. The time- consumi- ng
process of preparing passes for 98
guests lasted until about 2: 30 am.
Monday.
Five hours later, Mrs. Arndt joined a
Ford campaign staffer and a Reagan
backer in passing out credentials to the
guests.
At 8: 30 ajn., Missouri delegation
chairman Thomas Curtis of St Louis
called a meeting of the delegation to
order. After responding to questions
about the mechanics of getting
delegates and their guests into Kemper
Arena, the site of the convention, Curtis
turned over the lecturn to Agriculture
Secretary Earl Butt,., who led a four- ma- n
team of Ford supporters from
Washington in giving their pitch to the
Missouri delegation.
After Bute's name was announced as
the leader of the Ford team, the
delegates stood and applauded. But in
the back of the crowd a man
sarcastically muttered, " They've got
all the heavyweights now. This is really
going to influence a lot of votes."
Missouri Gov. Christopher Bond, the
only Ford delegate elected at the GOP
state convention in Springfield June 12,
stood for a while at the side of the room
sipping coffee from a plastic foam cup
with the lettering, " THE HONORABLE
CHRISTOPHERS. BOND: Governor of
Missouri." The honorable governor was
forced to be only the honorary
chairman of the state delegation after
Reagan forces nearly swept the state
convention delegate selection process.
Throughout the Missouri caucus,
Betty Arndt was behind a table in a far
corner of the room away from the
television lights. She had been on her
feet answering questions from
delegates and alternates and their
guests since 7: 30. She explained seating
arrangements for the delegation inside
Kemper Arena, helped a young man
without credentials who wanted to see
the convention, and told someone else
where to fmd tickets for a shuttle bus
from the Hobday Inn to Kemper Arena
Later, she missed a luncheon
sponsored by St. Louis Globe- Democr- at
publisher G Duncan Baumann at the
posh Kansas City Club Mrs Arndt, who
had also missed breakfast, was busy
answering phone calls for the Missouri
Reagan backers at the convention's
morning opening session.
Since she became active in politics 20
years ago, Betty Arndt has been an
insider. She worked for Dwight
Eisenhower's re- electi- on in 1956 after a
friend on the county Republican
committee asked her to help. In 1960,
she helped found the Republican
Women's Club of Centralia, and served
as the club's president for three years.
She also has been a Girl Scout leader
for seven years She has devoted more
hours than she can count to the United
Way, the Centralia Mental Health
Council, the " Christmas for Christ"
charity campaign of the Centralia
Christian Church, and the Red Cross for
which she has served as a volunteer
registered nurse.
In 1964, Mrs. Arndt was elected as a
Goldwater delegate to the GOP
National Convention at San Francisco's
Cow Palace It was that year that she
met John Powell, the part- own- er of a
lumberyard in Rolla. The meeting
determined much of the insider's role
that Mrs. Arndt is playing at this year's
convention.
Powell at the time was another
Goldwater delegate from Missouri's 8th
Congressional District. This year, he
was the state campaign coordinator for
Ronald Reagan after Missouri's top
GOP leaders announced their support
for President Ford
When Powell was looking for a
campaign coordinator for Reagan in
Boone County, he asked Betty Arndt to
find one. " By default," she says, she
got the job.
At the county Republican convention
( SeeDELGATE, Pagel4)
Centralia's Betty Arndt mr.
A political insider at Kansas City
Mississippi key in Republican race
By Walter Fee
Missourian staff writer
" Some of these people wish we would
never get around to a vote." Harry
Dent, an official on President Ford's
campaign staff and the man formerly
in charge of " Southern strategy" for
Richard Nixon.
INDEPENDENCE If you ask
someone associated with President
Ford or Ronald Reagan where the 30
most important persons in the world
live, Mississippi will tumble cut of his
mouth faster man a politician can
shake hands.
One hundred sixteen delegates to the
Republican National Convention
classify themselves as uncommitted.
Thirty of them are from a state with so
little GOP clout that it traditionally has
abided by a unit rule allocating all its
votes to one candidate.
Mississippians think they can
personally choose the Republican
candidate for President.
And they might Fed chief southern
delegate hunter Harry Dent said
Monday the delegation is ready to
abandon the unit rule.
" That would mean IS votes for the
President, which will clearly put the
President over the top," he said.
When the 60 Mississippi delegates
and alternates arrived at the Ramada
Inn East inIndependence Sunday night,
nervous campaign workers and
representatives of all the elite news
organizations watched them eat a cold
cuts and watermelon supper.
Mississippi is a state of political
paradoxes. It gave GO per cent of its
vote to Richard Nixon in 1972 and 87 per
cent to Barry Goldwater in 1984, yet
only five of the 174 members of both
houses of the state legislature are
Republican.
Dublin, Miss., delegate Malcolm
Mabry is an example of the
contradictions in this delegation.
Mabry, 43, is a Delta cotton and pea
farmer with a master's degree in social
studies. He won election to the
Mississippi House of Representatives
as a Democrat in 1983, switched
allegiance to the GOP in 1968 and has
continued to win elections as a white
Republican in a district that is per
cent black.
A self- proclaim- ed " maverick,"
Mabry says he will express his
individuality at the convention. " If the
delegation decides to keep the unit rule
and vote for Ford, I will break the unit
rule. I am going to vote for Reagan no
matter what."
Mabry says he has enjoyed the
( See SOUTHERNER, Page 14)
Ford- f& eaga- m delegate tally
Here's how the two major wire services, the New York
Times and the three television networks assess the Ford- Reag- an
battle in terms of delegate votes:
Ford Reagan Uncom
Associated Press 1,116 1,035 107
United Press International 1,128 1,037 94
The New York Times 1,127 1,039 93
CBS- T- V 1,132
NBC- T- V 1,122
ABC- T- V 1,122
1,130 needed to nominate

today
Exhibits
Continuing: EOfa Library, Tex-tiles
Through Two MUlenia, 2 to 5
p. m. and Italian Baroque Draw-ings,
2 to 5 p. m. Public Library,
Scenes from Columbia, water- colo- rs
by Lois Mikrut and 20th
Century Doll Collection loaned by
Lois Miller. v
Irasight
Plan to help
with traffic
abandoned
U. S. court order
halts experiment
in California
By Gladwin Hill
N. Y. Times Service
LOS ANGELES - One of the federal
government's principal experiments
for promoting bus travel and car
pooling to cut urban traffic and air
pollution was halted suddenly last
week. Whether it could be revived
seemed highly problematical.
Under the experiment, the high speed
left- han- d lane on a freeway was
restricted during rush hours to buses
and cars with three or more occupants.
Under way since March 15 on the 12 5- m- ile
( 20- kilomet- er) freeway from
Santa Monica to downtown Los
Angeles, the project had engendered
intense controversy. The vast majority
of motorists relegated to the three other
freeway lanes howled that the idea was
a disaster. State officials contended
that it was starting to produce the
desired results.
Their disputation was cut short last
Monday when the U S. District Court
here ordered the experiment suspended
on a technicality. Judge William
Matthew Byrne held that the State
Department of Transportation, in
instituting the project as part of a
federally mandated " transportation
control plan," had failed to comply with
federal and state laws requiring an
environmental impact assessment
The ruling brought cries of jubilation
from freeway commuters and a
celebratory cocktail party by a city
councilman who. had led toppeetttaaJo.
the project. The freeway immediately
reverted to its accustomed free- for- a- ll
pattern
Theoretically the ruling entails only a
hiatus of some months for preparation
of an impact assessment, which even if
adverse, would not legally stop the
Diamond Lane project, named for its
distinctive pavement markings.
However, the experiment was
ballooning into a political issue, with
state legislators at Sacramento
proposing to thwart it
And officials of the Environmental
Protection Agency in Washington
indicated informally that the
experiment had proved so
( See DESPITE, Page 11)
HMIATTTSI IiLlCOTIHCYHlCLTIL. " OCISTY 19334
COLUMBIA, VO. 65201 Council defeats ' premature9 eariiiiigs tax
ByLkMcNutty
Mluourisn staff writer
The earnings tax proposal was
defeated Monday night as City Council
members called it premature but ex-pressed
interest in passing the plan in
the future.
The proposed charter amendment,
which was defeated unanimously,
would have levied a one per cent tax on
all income earned by ' Columbia resi-dents
as well as all income earned by
non- reside- nts working in the dty.
" As long as the city administration
stays within its expenditure limit we
won't need this now," Third Ward
Councilman Phil Hanson said. Other
council members agreed that the ad-ministration's
efforts to limit spending
have eliminated the necessity for the
earnings tax now.
" We haven't reached the ( financial)
crisis we thought we'd have a year
ago," said Mayor Bob Pugh. " In my
thinking on this the patient is sick but
it's not ready for surgery this radical
yet"
Sixth Ward Councilman Clyde Wilson
said, " I will vote against this but I like
some aspects of it; I like getting those
who use the city to pay."
Proctor and other council members
praised the work of the Finance Study
Commission, which originally proposed
the earnings tax last year, and the work
of a special tax study group headed by
Finance Director Mike Scanlan which
prepared a report on how the tax would
be administered
" This last go ' round with the tech-nical
refinements ( the tax study group
report) will be valuable when the
( See COUNCIL, Page 11)
68th Year - No. 277 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, Aug. 17,1976 14 Pages - 15 Cents
B9BIB flK '"'' ilHiBflEBHMHflBIIBRflHSMSHiHBWMtaEMBflHnflHSflNHStfEBflflOHBSSSfl& flHKHKiEHIiflHflEliIHiB" "" 9IHfeM0SMlBflHEiH
Tom Curtis, chairman of the Missouri
delegation, talks with a page at the Republican
National Convention. Curtis, a former Missouri
congressman, is a supporter of candidate Ronald
Reagan. ( Missourian photo by M. R. Bradford)
2 vh JBf IB HB wj jm 95 SI 1 h
By our wire services
KANSAS CITY Repubbcans staged
the ceremonial opening of their 31st
National Convention Monday, their
keynote speaker denouncing Demo-crats
for " rattling the dusty old
skeletons of Watergate " Meanwhile,
President Ford and Ronald Reagan
warred in the political trenches to settle
the closest presidential contest of the
times
An Illinois Ford delegate said
Monday a stranger offered her $ 2,500 to
back Ronald Reagan in a key con-vention
floor fight Reagan called this
and another bribery charge raised by
Ford supporters " a falsehood" that
" disgusted" him
CBS News said the FBI had confirm-ed
that a charge had been filed on the
bribery allegation, quoting special
agent Bill Williams as the source of that
report
Reagan probed for the advantage in
the convention by proposing to add a
platform plank that would in effect put
the convention on record as supporting
his posture on U S relations with the
Soviet Union
The former California governor thus
Invited a platform fight on the conven-tion
floor. Ford managers huddled at
their Crown Center Hotel headquarters
to decide on their counter- strateg- y
Ford himself received a procession of
delegates in his 18th floor presidential
suite
Sen James L Buckley of New York
stepped aside as a possible third entry,
saying he will run only for the Senate
and will support the ticket chosen by
the convention
The arithmetic of delegate votes told
the only story that counted, but what
those numbers were was in question
( see box below). Most news organi-zations
gave Ford more than 1,120 dele-gates,
only a few short of the 1,130
needed to nominate Only CBS- T- V said
he has the delegates needed
Before Wednesday night's climactic
roll call, the Ford and Reagan forces
likely will be measured by at least two
preliminary contests And those votes,
set for tonight, could affect the final
verdict
One loomed on Reagan's effort to
compel Ford to announce in advance
his choice of a vice presidential
nominee
Mane Goodlow, 45, a delegate from
Chicago committed to President Ford,
said a stranger claiming " 1 work for
Reagan" approached her in her
convention hotel and offered to pay all
her expenses " if you vote to force Presi-dent
Ford to name his running mate "
" There is absolutely nothing to it,"
Reagan told reporters who asked his
reaction to the vote- switchi- ng bribery
allegations made by Ford backers in
the Illinois delegation
Reagan raised the likelihood of
another preliminary contest by seeking
convention action " to strengthen the
party platform" on foreign policy The
( See FORD, Page 14)
County's one GOP delegate busy
ByBobHuckcr
Missourian staff writer
KANSAS CITY On the first day of
the Republican National Convention,
Betty Arndt has assumed the role of a
political insider a role she has played
in Boone County Republican politics
since 1956.
Mrs Arndt, a 55- year-- old Centralia
housewife and political organizer, is the
county's only delegate to the national
convention.
After arriving in Kansas City with
her husband Joe at about 1: 30 pjn.
Sunday, Mrs. Arndt attended a
Missouri delegate caucus at 4 p. m.,
then went to a cocktail reception at the
Imperial Palace Chinese restaurant
She was back at the Downtown Holiday
Inn at about 10 p. m. to begin
preparations for distributing
convention credentials and passes to
the guests of Missouri's 49 delegates
and 49 alternates. The time- consumi- ng
process of preparing passes for 98
guests lasted until about 2: 30 am.
Monday.
Five hours later, Mrs. Arndt joined a
Ford campaign staffer and a Reagan
backer in passing out credentials to the
guests.
At 8: 30 ajn., Missouri delegation
chairman Thomas Curtis of St Louis
called a meeting of the delegation to
order. After responding to questions
about the mechanics of getting
delegates and their guests into Kemper
Arena, the site of the convention, Curtis
turned over the lecturn to Agriculture
Secretary Earl Butt,., who led a four- ma- n
team of Ford supporters from
Washington in giving their pitch to the
Missouri delegation.
After Bute's name was announced as
the leader of the Ford team, the
delegates stood and applauded. But in
the back of the crowd a man
sarcastically muttered, " They've got
all the heavyweights now. This is really
going to influence a lot of votes."
Missouri Gov. Christopher Bond, the
only Ford delegate elected at the GOP
state convention in Springfield June 12,
stood for a while at the side of the room
sipping coffee from a plastic foam cup
with the lettering, " THE HONORABLE
CHRISTOPHERS. BOND: Governor of
Missouri." The honorable governor was
forced to be only the honorary
chairman of the state delegation after
Reagan forces nearly swept the state
convention delegate selection process.
Throughout the Missouri caucus,
Betty Arndt was behind a table in a far
corner of the room away from the
television lights. She had been on her
feet answering questions from
delegates and alternates and their
guests since 7: 30. She explained seating
arrangements for the delegation inside
Kemper Arena, helped a young man
without credentials who wanted to see
the convention, and told someone else
where to fmd tickets for a shuttle bus
from the Hobday Inn to Kemper Arena
Later, she missed a luncheon
sponsored by St. Louis Globe- Democr- at
publisher G Duncan Baumann at the
posh Kansas City Club Mrs Arndt, who
had also missed breakfast, was busy
answering phone calls for the Missouri
Reagan backers at the convention's
morning opening session.
Since she became active in politics 20
years ago, Betty Arndt has been an
insider. She worked for Dwight
Eisenhower's re- electi- on in 1956 after a
friend on the county Republican
committee asked her to help. In 1960,
she helped found the Republican
Women's Club of Centralia, and served
as the club's president for three years.
She also has been a Girl Scout leader
for seven years She has devoted more
hours than she can count to the United
Way, the Centralia Mental Health
Council, the " Christmas for Christ"
charity campaign of the Centralia
Christian Church, and the Red Cross for
which she has served as a volunteer
registered nurse.
In 1964, Mrs. Arndt was elected as a
Goldwater delegate to the GOP
National Convention at San Francisco's
Cow Palace It was that year that she
met John Powell, the part- own- er of a
lumberyard in Rolla. The meeting
determined much of the insider's role
that Mrs. Arndt is playing at this year's
convention.
Powell at the time was another
Goldwater delegate from Missouri's 8th
Congressional District. This year, he
was the state campaign coordinator for
Ronald Reagan after Missouri's top
GOP leaders announced their support
for President Ford
When Powell was looking for a
campaign coordinator for Reagan in
Boone County, he asked Betty Arndt to
find one. " By default," she says, she
got the job.
At the county Republican convention
( SeeDELGATE, Pagel4)
Centralia's Betty Arndt mr.
A political insider at Kansas City
Mississippi key in Republican race
By Walter Fee
Missourian staff writer
" Some of these people wish we would
never get around to a vote." Harry
Dent, an official on President Ford's
campaign staff and the man formerly
in charge of " Southern strategy" for
Richard Nixon.
INDEPENDENCE If you ask
someone associated with President
Ford or Ronald Reagan where the 30
most important persons in the world
live, Mississippi will tumble cut of his
mouth faster man a politician can
shake hands.
One hundred sixteen delegates to the
Republican National Convention
classify themselves as uncommitted.
Thirty of them are from a state with so
little GOP clout that it traditionally has
abided by a unit rule allocating all its
votes to one candidate.
Mississippians think they can
personally choose the Republican
candidate for President.
And they might Fed chief southern
delegate hunter Harry Dent said
Monday the delegation is ready to
abandon the unit rule.
" That would mean IS votes for the
President, which will clearly put the
President over the top," he said.
When the 60 Mississippi delegates
and alternates arrived at the Ramada
Inn East inIndependence Sunday night,
nervous campaign workers and
representatives of all the elite news
organizations watched them eat a cold
cuts and watermelon supper.
Mississippi is a state of political
paradoxes. It gave GO per cent of its
vote to Richard Nixon in 1972 and 87 per
cent to Barry Goldwater in 1984, yet
only five of the 174 members of both
houses of the state legislature are
Republican.
Dublin, Miss., delegate Malcolm
Mabry is an example of the
contradictions in this delegation.
Mabry, 43, is a Delta cotton and pea
farmer with a master's degree in social
studies. He won election to the
Mississippi House of Representatives
as a Democrat in 1983, switched
allegiance to the GOP in 1968 and has
continued to win elections as a white
Republican in a district that is per
cent black.
A self- proclaim- ed " maverick,"
Mabry says he will express his
individuality at the convention. " If the
delegation decides to keep the unit rule
and vote for Ford, I will break the unit
rule. I am going to vote for Reagan no
matter what."
Mabry says he has enjoyed the
( See SOUTHERNER, Page 14)
Ford- f& eaga- m delegate tally
Here's how the two major wire services, the New York
Times and the three television networks assess the Ford- Reag- an
battle in terms of delegate votes:
Ford Reagan Uncom
Associated Press 1,116 1,035 107
United Press International 1,128 1,037 94
The New York Times 1,127 1,039 93
CBS- T- V 1,132
NBC- T- V 1,122
ABC- T- V 1,122
1,130 needed to nominate